> I suspect the '15 minutes' thing was happening because there were
> waaaaay too many useless log files in the repository... and db_recover
> was needlessly running over them.
>
> (The 'hot-backup.py' script that we run on each commit wasn't fully
> doing it's job: it was removing useless logs from the *backup* copy,
> not the live repository. I think this still needs to be fixed!)

Heh...I was just making this change. Of course, the Berkeley docs say
that we should NOT be deleting those logfiles, but be archiving them
to removable media instead for catastrophic recovery.